{"id":2299,"date":"2013-08-09T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2013-08-09T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:17:35","slug":"score-one-for-the-appletv-and-a-few-other-quick-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/score-one-for-the-appletv-and-a-few-other-quick-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Score one for the AppleTV and a few other quick hits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I usually side with Roku when asked what additional set-top box to buy, since Roku allows the easy use of Amazon Prime Video, but the Teter cord-chewing (it&#8217;s not cutting if it ain&#8217;t cut!) project has unearthed the fact that Roku&#8217;s HBO Go channel does NOT work with XFinity, whereas AppleTV&#8217;s HBO Go option DOES work with XFinity. Since I would pretty much cancel all channels other than HBO and NESN, and simply watch the Patriots with an antenna or at a bar once a week, this discovery has pushed the AppleTV over the Roku&#8230; even though we have both&#8230; and they&#8217;re 5 inches apart&#8230; and they&#8217;re on Video 3 and Video 4 on the same television&#8230; and we only watch tv in the kids-are-asleep window from 8:15PM to 9:00PM because we&#8217;re more tired these days than the Ridgeback, who is about as tired as you can get and still be alive.<\/li>\n<li>Motorola&#8217;s X Phone is good-not-great. It is innovative with its always-on-and-waiting-for-youishness and the way it tries to tap into Google Now better&#8230; something that really blows Siri out of the water by the way. The specs are a little weak and the display is little weak, but the real deal breaker for me is that the camera (from what I&#8217;ve seen) still takes too many craptastic pictures. Repeat after me, Motorola: &#8220;a stellar camera joined to solid Motorola hardware with maybe adding back a dash of kevlar would = you winning.&#8221; I&#8217;d say wait for the second generation of this and hope that Google bakes some of the extra Motorola functionality into Key Lime Pie, so that this could be a viable Nexus device.<\/li>\n<li>Chromecast is a neat little toy that made sense to buy when it came with the three free months of Netflix. It works&#8230; it&#8217;s kind of neat to throw a browser to your tv&#8230; if you want to put browser-based video on your tv, or if you don&#8217;t have a Roku or an AppleTV or anything else to watch Netflix, ok&#8230; but it&#8217;s raw and hiccuppy at the moment. It&#8217;s got great potential, but if you don&#8217;t like to beta test&#8230; well&#8230; I&#8217;d wait until they start giving these away or integrating them with newer tv&#8217;s. People will do cool stuff with this thing down the road, but no need to rush out now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually side with Roku when asked what additional set-top box to buy, since Roku allows the easy use of Amazon Prime Video, but the Teter cord-chewing (it&#8217;s not cutting if it ain&#8217;t cut!) project has unearthed the fact that Roku&#8217;s HBO Go channel does NOT work with XFinity, whereas AppleTV&#8217;s HBO Go option DOES &#8230; <a title=\"Score one for the AppleTV and a few other quick hits&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/score-one-for-the-appletv-and-a-few-other-quick-hits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Score one for the AppleTV and a few other quick hits&#8230;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}